Электронная книга: Iain Pears «The Bernini Bust»

Iain Pears

Iain Pears (born in 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. His well known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though international fame first arrived with his best selling book "An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998)", which was translated into several languages. Pears is married, has a son, and currently lives in Oxford.

Bibliography

Jonathan Argyll series (art history mysteries)

This series describes the adventures of art historian Jonathan Argyll and two members of the (ficitious) Art Squad of the Italian police: Flavia di Stefano (researcher) and General Bottando (head of the squad). Books:
* "The Raphael Affair" (1991)
* "The Titian Committee" (1992)
* "The Bernini Bust" (1993)
* "The Last Judgement" (1994)
* "Giotto's Hand" (1995)
* "Death and Restoration" (1996)
* "The Immaculate Deception" (2000)

tand-alone books

* "An Instance of the Fingerpost" (1998)
* "The Dream of Scipio" (2002)
* "The Portrait" (2005)

Other books

* "The Discovery of Painting" (1989)

Источник: Iain Pears